Claire | January 1, 2012
From Tumblr- This girl that I know and her boyfriend broke up recently. lifeofpraise: I saw her relationship status changed to single and was really shocked because everyone knew they were going to get married. They were as perfect of a couple as you could get. If you thought of one, you automatically thought of [...]
Claire | December 28, 2011
Sometimes I wonder why it is I believe in God. And when I do, one of the things that sustains me is the realization that I do believe the world will end. Anyone attuned to the rhythms and patterns of the human race and of this world we live in can sense that. Someday, the [...]
Claire | November 9, 2011
From Halfway to Normal – “What would the world look like, for instance, if the church spent as much time teaching our teenagers to love others with compassion, as we spend pounding the “no-sex-outside-of-marriage” message into their heads? What if we, as parents, spent more time guiding our children on the journey of discovering who [...]
Claire | August 17, 2011
“During his 10-year tenure as [Britain's] prime minister, Tony Blair exercised a self-imposed silence on the subject of his faith. However he is now speaking out explaining just how much faith played a role in his life during that time. ‘Precisely because all the fixed points of reference seem unfixed and constantly in flux, today is [...]
Claire | March 30, 2011
and we’re off again with forehead freshly smeared and spirit seared anew by memories of dust, rumors of all or nothing up ahead. These frigid days and weeks lean inward, huddling for warmth, and disciplines attempt in vain to shape them toward value, meaning, promise. Warmth will, of course, return bearing its customary, temporary, blossoming. [...]
Claire | March 14, 2011
“Let us beware of rebellion against the Lord. Circumstances are of his choosing, because He wants to bless us, to lead us (even through the wilderness) out of Egypt, that is, out of ourselves. Settle the complaint with God, and it will settle other things. Be offended with God, and you will be offended with [...]
Claire | October 19, 2010
Found online. Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son? Student: Yes, sir. Professor: So, you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir. Professor: Is God good? Student: Sure. Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But [...]
Claire | October 6, 2010
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” -C.S. Lewis
Claire | February 10, 2010
“We don’t live in a coherent age. Walking through the culture is like walking through the surf after a battering storm, stepping through shards of insatiable consumerism, gaudy FunTime noise, self-indulgent weepiness, toilet humor, posturing nihilism. Things keep saying they?re important, but they turn out to be more loud than deep. Stepping around the shards [...]
Claire | February 7, 2010
MaryAnn, Aug. 13, 2009 “As the days of pregnancy are quickly coming to a close, I had the brief thought today that I might miss a bit of this season in my life. Not that I would want repetition of the nausea, vomiting, dietary restrictions, needle-pricking or this reality of a train running over my [...]
